For the second time this year, a German university has withdrawn a Ph.D awarded to a politician. The University of Heidelberg said it had no choice but to withdraw the title from Silvana Koch-Mehrin due to plagiarism: here.

One of the leading members of Germany’s SPD has denied allegations that he plagiarized part of his doctoral thesis. Frank-Walter Steinmeier is just the latest in a series of German politicians to face such accusations: here.

Regional CDU Official Speaks Out: Merkel Under Fire Within Her Own Party: here.

German MP Petra Hinz did not finish high school, falsely claimed to have finished univeersity law study: here.

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Germany: A prominent right-wing politician was stripped of her doctorate on Wednesday after a university found that she had plagiarised parts of her dissertation.

The University of Heidelberg’s decision against Silvana Koch-Mehrin follows the resignation in March of defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who was found to have copied large parts of his thesis. Mr Guttenberg was also stripped of his doctorate.

Ms Koch-Mehrin quit as vice-president of the European Parliament last month and resigned from the leadership board of the Free Democratic Party, the junior party in Germany’s governing coalition.